Doug Holyday gets grumpy about families downtown, Ed Keenan responds with facts | OpenFile:
"On a darker note, it also explains the laissez-faire attitude that so many suburban conservatives had towards the abuses of the G20, as if living downtown was itself incriminating enough to deserve the suspension of our civil liberties. After the G20 weekend, Rob Ford told his AM radio listeners "Personally, if you didn't want to be down there, then you shouldn't have been down there." "Down there," in this case, included a part of the city where tens of thousands of people live."
'via Blog this'
It's been a fun couple of days, mostly related to Holyday's
Grandpa Simpson act and conviction that downtown Toronto is no place for kids. Next thing you know,
little Ginny's not just playing in traffic -- she's doing crack in the alley behind the meth lab.
But this piece also draws the connection between putative suburban suspicion and resentment of downtown and the smug you-had-it-coming, you-shouldn't-have-been-there reaction to the mass arrests, police brutality and wholesale violations of civil and human rights during the G20. Remember Mayor Stupid suggesting the cops were
too nice and
didn't go far enough?
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